NO SANDY
Chapter 1It was late at night when Ruthie heard the roar of the thunder. She jumped out of her bed with a yawn and a stretch and stood near the window watching the pouring rain. She closed her eyes listening to the sound of the raindrops colliding with the glass of her window. For some reason the thought of Martin crossed her mind she couldn't help but grin.
Ruthie opened her eyes and let out a frustrating sigh she really had no idea where they stood. It was best friends one day, brother and sister the next, then they are only introduced as enemies. Then the world has to throw one more thing…Love, Ruthie hated that world, Love, it was too complex and she saw no reason to it. Ruthie saw love connected to pain the kind of pain she would rather not experience. Though the days she sees his beautiful face filled with confidence and strength. She couldn't help but wanting nothing more then to love him.
"Maybe I do love him?" she asked herself. Then she realized she did there was no escape God help her she loved him. As much as it pained her to think of that four letter word. She could not deny no longer. The feelings she carried towards him or the sparks she feels between them, Ruthie Camden really had no idea how to face Love. She saw it as an enemy. She thought if she came to compromise with it that something terrible would happen. Who knows maybe it will.She sighed once more the contemplation was making her hungry. She went down stairs and into the fridge; Ruthie was not too quiet, because she was home alone as her wonderful family went to Florida trying convincing her Stupid sister Mary to get her life on track. Ruthie thought it was pointless. She loved Mary, but Mary was really crazy. Haven't her parents learned that Mary was not going to change her mind because they say so? Never worked before. Why would it work now?
The thought of Mary soon vanished as she remembered Martin once again. This really frustrated her. She loved him, but she knew there was no love in return for her so she will just leave it as unrequited love hoping that it would not consume her someday.
Ruthie fumbled through the fridge and only found crunchy peanut butter. She sighed then shrugged. She grabbed the jar and then got a spoon. She liked eating peanut butter by itself. Though tonight it tasted different. She thought maybe because when Martin lived with them they use to stay up all night eating crunchy peanut butter form a jar. She shook her head and once again sighed.
"Nothing quite takes the taste out of peanut butter the unrequited love." She mumbled to herself.
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Ruthie screamed as the wind blew something breaking the window. She slowly got up from her chair and noticed that it stopped raining and there was no wind strong enough to take that chair that was now sitting in a pile of broken glass, to fly through the window like that. She heard footsteps out side and began to panic she ran upstairs. She noticed footsteps were quickening behind her. She ran faster and locked her in her parents' bedroom. She grabbed her parents' cell phone, because they only brought one to Florida, and ran in their bathroom locking that as well and hid behind the shower curtain. She quickly dialed Martin's number praying he would pick up as she heard three gun shots outside her parents' bedroom door. Tears ran down her face fearing she would never see her parents again her friends and most importantly, Martin. Finally she heard a groggily husky voice. There was no doubt it was Martin.
"Hello?" Martin asked trying to keep awake. He heard tears and hard breathing. A fear for Ruthie suddenly took over.
"Ruthie?" he asked in fear.
"Martin." She said breathlessly.
"Some one is..is…in the house. He has a gun." What Ruthie said was confirmed when he heard the shots over the phone and Ruthie screaming in fear.
"He's here!" she exclaimed. Martin ran out of bed tears streaming down his face.
"I can't lose her!" he exclaimed toward the ceiling. He ran outside not even bothering to get dressed and grabbed a bat. He shot through the Camden door running up the stairs Memories of the time they shared were going through his mind.
He ran towards Ruthie's cries of pain and saw a man on top of her with the gun to her head.
"Shut-up or I'll shoot." He ordered her. It didn't take him long for him to make the bat collide to his head knocking him out before he had a chance to pull the trigger to send the harsh bullet through her head.
Martin wrapped his arms around Ruthie repeating over and over again.
"You're gonna be okay." Ruthie sat there dazed and confused. She didn't know if she could believe she was going to be okay. She was just harshly raped and almost killed. Ruthie's confusion turned to anger. She crawled to the unconscious man that lay next to the toilet and pulled the mask off of his face. Both Martin and Ruthie gasped when they saw the man behind the mask.
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